--- configure.orig	Sun Jul 13 18:46:13 2003
+++ configure	Sat Jul 19 15:21:09 2003
@@ -3288,6 +3288,12 @@
 	  RUNSHARED=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 	  INSTSONAME="$LDLIBRARY".$SOVERSION
 	  ;;
+    FreeBSD*)
+	  LDLIBRARY='libpython$(VERSION).so'
+	  BLDLIBRARY='-L. -lpython$(VERSION)'
+	  RUNSHARED=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+	  INSTSONAME="$LDLIBRARY"
+	  ;;
     hp*|HP*)
 	  LDLIBRARY='libpython$(VERSION).sl'
 	  BLDLIBRARY='-Wl,+b,$(LIBDIR) -L. -lpython$(VERSION)'